Day 58 – You Choose!

Exercising the capacity to choose is fundamental to practicing mindfulness, changing your mind, and living a good life.

Today we're starting from the space in-between your thoughts – where you find yourself when you've just pulled out of one. From this vantage point, what you've just bought yourself is choice – a faculty of your human awareness.

Unless you set yourself up to have a choice in what your brain and, by extension, 'you' do, you will not really be making choices. Instead, the menagerie inside your head 🐵🐶🐲 will be making them for you – and they aren't even capable of making free choices in the first place, they can only follow their programming.

PRACTICE — MAKING 4-CHOICES

Once you've chosen to recover from your thought (1), choose to rebalance yourself in your body (take a tension-releasing breath) (2), and then choose what you want to think about next (3), and finally, choose how you want to show-up (eg tense and anxious vs flexible and curious) (4). Then dive in and start your thinking!